Women Poets Of China
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Author | : Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811208215 |
"The poetry proves again that stereotypes mislead. Chinese verse is supposedly cool and distant, detached and dispassionate. The opposite seems true; poets are exalted or downcast, drunk with wine or, in the case of women, frankly sensuous....Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills." --America
Author | : Kang-i Sun Chang |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 932 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780804732314 |
The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.
Author | : Michael Farman |
Publisher | : White Pine Press (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781935210498 |
"A delectable selection of poems by China's greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty. A rare achievement!"--Red Pine "Jade Mirror's particular strength comes from the fact that all of its fine translators bring to the work different senses of where poetry is to be found in the originals as well present some of the finest poetic translation of the last twenty years."--Jerome Seaton This anthology spans twenty-five hundred years of writing by women. These are voices that were most often left out of the official anthologies and represent a hidden tradition that deserves a wider audience.
Author | : Xiaorong Li |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295804432 |
This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were both a real and an imaginary place. Originally popularized in sixth-century "palace style" poetry, the inner chambers were used by male writers as a setting in which to celebrate female beauty, to lament the loneliness of abandoned women, and by extension, to serve as a political allegory for the exile of loyal and upright male ministers spurned by the imperial court. Female writers of lyric poetry (ci) soon adopted the theme, beginning its transition from male fantasy to multidimensional representation of women and their place in society, and eventually its manifestation in other poetic genres as well. Emerging from the role of sexual objects within poetry, late imperial women were agents of literary change in their expansion and complication of the boudoir theme. While some take ownership and de-eroticizing its imagery for their own purposes, adding voices of children and older women, and filling the inner chambers with purposeful activity such as conversation, teaching, religious ritual, music, sewing, childcare, and chess-playing, some simply want to escape from their confinement and protest gender restrictions imposed on women. Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China traces this evolution across centuries, providing and analyzing examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers, and demonstrating the complication and nuancing of the gui theme by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.
Author | : Julia C. Lin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317453204 |
Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and the era of Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. The collection includes 245 poems by forty poets in elegant English translations, as well as an extensive introduction that surveys the history of contemporary Chinese women's poetry. Brief biographical head notes introduce each poet, from Bin Xin, China's preeminent woman poet in the early Republican period, to Rongzi, a leading poet of modern Taiwan. The selections are startling, moving, and wide-ranging in mood and tone. Together they present an enticing palette of delightful, elegant, playful, lyric, and tragic poetry.
Author | : Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Beata Grant |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0861713621 |
The author has performed a great service in recovering and translating the enchanting poems and talks of twenty nuns from the period 1600 to 1850.
Author | : Greg Whincup |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1987-09-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 038523967X |
Greg Whincup offers a varied and unique approach to Chinese translation in The Heart of Chinese Poetry. Special features of this edition include direct word-for-word translations showing the range of meaning in each Chinese character, the Chinese pronunciations, as well as biographical and historical commentary following each poem.
Author | : Ronald Egan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684170745 |
Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China’s literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But at what price to our understanding of her as a writer does this distinction come? The Burden of Female Talent challenges conventional modes of thinking about Li Qingzhao as a devoted but often lonely wife and, later, a forlorn widow. By examining manipulations of her image by the critical tradition in later imperial times and into the twentieth century, Ronald C. Egan brings to light the ways in which critics sought to accommodate her to cultural norms, molding her “talent” to make it compatible with ideals of womanly conduct and identity. Contested images of Li, including a heated controversy concerning her remarriage and its implications for her “devotion” to her first husband, reveal the difficulty literary culture has had in coping with this woman of extraordinary conduct and ability. The study ends with a reappraisal of Li’s poetry, freed from the autobiographical and reductive readings that were traditionally imposed on it and which remain standard even today.
Author | : Aliki Barnstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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